[DNG] How to construct a testing .deb binary with dpkg-buildpackage?

2021-11-14 Thread Haines Brown 
As a long time debian/devuan user I always feel ashamed  to ask such a 
pedestrian question as this.

Given the absence of a backport for nano, my aim is to construct 
a .deb for the testing version of nano (nano-9.5). This is what I did:

  In apt sources.list IO added the lines
 
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports main contrib 
non-free

  and ran an update and upgrade

I expected # aptitude search nano would now return a nano package with 
the .bpo extendion. It did not. Whe not?

Next I tried to satisfy dependencies:  

  # apt-get build-dep -t testing nano
  but this returns:

  E: The value 'testing' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such 
a release is not available in the sources
  E: Unable to find a source package for nano 

  # apt-get build-dep nano-5.9
  still can't find the source pacakage. 

I thought the -t would override the deault stable, but instead it 
seems the default value stable is negating the -t option.

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Haines Brown  
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Re: [DNG] How to construct a testing .deb binary with dpkg-buildpackage?

2021-11-14 Thread Stefan Krusche 
Am Sonntag, 14. November 2021 schrieb Haines Brown:
> Given the absence of a backport for nano, my aim is to construct
> a .deb for the testing version of nano (nano-9.5). This is what I
> did:
>
>   In apt sources.list IO added the lines
>
> deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports main contrib
> non-free deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports main
> contrib non-free

Above you showed that you added the lines for source repository 
of "chimaera-backports"…  Why not "testing" if that is where you want 
to build from?

> I expected # aptitude search nano would now return a nano package
> with the .bpo extendion. It did not. Whe not?

You already said that there is no backport version of nano.

> Next I tried to satisfy dependencies:
>
>   # apt-get build-dep -t testing nano
>   but this returns:
>
>   E: The value 'testing' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such
> a release is not available in the sources
^^^

I guess that you don't have entries for release testing in your 
sources.list… 

If you want to compile a testing version of nano then you need the 
source repository for the testing release, not the "chimaera-backports" 
one, I think.

HTH

Kind regards,
Stefan
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